Meriden School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When does Meriden call a snow day?

Meriden announces closings posted at 6:00 AM or shortly thereafter, by its own published protocol.

Q: How does Meriden announce a snow day?

By local TV and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: How many snow days does Meriden have built in?

1 for the 2026 to 2027 school year, listed on the calendar as “make-up day”.

Q: How long is a delayed start in Meriden?

2 hours: on a delay morning every school starts that much later.

Q: When is the last day of school for Meriden?

June 8, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How does the Meriden snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Meriden through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Meriden’s own big snow morning: 9 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Meriden close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Meriden.

The Meriden playbook

How Meriden calls a snow day

When the call comes

Posted at 6:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

“Announcements effecting the start of the school day will be posted at 6:00 AM or shortly thereafter.”

Source

How families hear

By local TV and radio.

“When school must be closed or hours adjusted because of inclement weather or other emergency situations, announcements to this effect will be made on the following television and radio stations as early as 6:00 AM.”

Emergency Closings

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Delayed Opening Times Due to Weather Conditions 2-Hour Delayed Opening Times School Opening Time High Schools 9:30 a.m.”

Delay schedule

1 built in snow day

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “make-up day”.

“In the event of weather-related school closures, make-up days are scheduled as follows: There is one make-up day built into the school calendar;”

Source

Making up a lost day

Added at the end of the year in June, then taken from April vacation.

“Snow make-up days will be scheduled at the end of the school year in June. If all snow days cannot be made up in June, the additional days will be subtracted from the Spring Vacation, starting at the end of that week.”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 26, 2026
Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
February break Feb 15 to Feb 16
Last day June 8, 2027

District calendar

Read from Meriden’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is meridenk12.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Meriden’s snow record

27.7inches of snow a winter

2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.3with 4 in or more

9 ina big snow morning in Meriden: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

0.6Nov

5.1Dec

8.3Jan

9.9Feb

3.7Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 15 in on January 26, 2026
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 52.5 in
6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
1 in mornings 3.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.2 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

The Connecticut rule

How Connecticut counts a lost day

Connecticut requires at least 180 days and 900 hours of actual school work, counting no more than 7 hours a day.

The Connecticut rules in the agency’s own words, and every Connecticut district

Next door

Districts near Meriden

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Cheshire School DistrictCheshire	27.7 in	1.3
Berlin School DistrictBerlin	25.5 in	1.4
Southington School DistrictSouthington	45.7 in	1.7
Wallingford School DistrictWallingford	27.7 in	1.3
Middletown School DistrictMiddletown	24.4 in	1.1
Regional School District 13Durham	24.4 in	1.1

The schools

13 schools

Every school in Meriden follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Francis T. Maloney High School
Orville H. Platt High School

Middle

Edison Middle School
Lincoln Middle School
Washington Middle School

Elementary

Casimir Pulaski School
Nathan Hale School
Israel Putnam School
Roger Sherman School
Hanover School
John Barry School
Benjamin Franklin School
Thomas Hooker School

Questions

Meriden snow day questions

When does Meriden call a snow day?

How does Meriden announce a snow day?

How many snow days does Meriden have built in?

How long is a delayed start in Meriden?

When is the last day of school for Meriden?

How does the Meriden snow day predictor work?

How does Connecticut handle snow days?

More winter

More for Connecticut snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Connecticut winter forecastThe season ahead for Connecticut: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle — The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.